AMD Radeon HD 8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

Compare AMD Radeon HD 8950 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

250 points
7% slightly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

7 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

6 FPS
2 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

9 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

3 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16214 points
351% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
3590 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

19779 points
454% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
3564 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

13742 points
256% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
3852 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

12796 points
223% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
3955 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

225 W
33 W
581% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

399th of 586
407th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2013 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

11.1
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4
4.6

Radeon HD 8950 vs GeForce GT 740M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 740M beats the Radeon HD 8950 in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 740M has a significantly lower TDP at 33 W when compared to the Radeon HD 8950 at 225 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 740M over the Radeon HD 8950.

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